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How the violent history of Mortal Kombat sparked a moral panic
In the early 1990s, parents and politicians waged war on the bloody fatalities hidden in a video game – and were pummeled into submission
A typical fatality from the 1990s Mortal Kombat game
With one punch, Daniel Pesina’s head was separated from his body. It flew through the air. Behind twinkled an arc of pixelated blood.
“Holy cow!” blurted Pesina. “You just killed me! You can’t do that.”
Seated alongside, Mortal Kombat lead developer Ed Boon smiled. “We can do whatever we want,” he said.
Pesina was a martial arts expert with dreams of cracking Hollywood (he played one of Shredder’s henchmen in Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze). Now he was on the brink of immortality. All thanks to his starring role in developer Midway’s new martial arts video game, in which, courtesy of the wonders of digitisation, Pesina portrayed fighters Johnny Cage, Sub-Zero and Scorpion
With the new
Mortal Kombat movie hitting theaters and HBO Max tomorrow, I’ve been feeling pretty nostalgic about the series as a whole. What started out as my 9-year-old self staring down at a Sega Genesis controller in shock because “Oh my GOD did I just rip out that dude’s ENTIRE HEART” has not only become a significant part of video gaming but a well-loved franchise in my household.
It’s hard to believe that something so monumental to pop culture was, once upon a time, being made as a
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Mortal Kombat is a series made up of video games, movies, comics, toys, and, believe it or not, a child-friendly Saturday morning cartoon series that I watched the hell out of back in the day.
How Mortal Kombat invented the ESRB
A moral panic that changed the video game industry
Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon
During a joint hearing before two Senate committees in 1993, Sen. Joe Lieberman called for a bulky TV to be wheeled in so he could show a video excerpt to illustrate a point. It was a brutal scene from
Mortal Kombat blood splattering from Sonia’s head before Kano rips out her heart. In a second clip, Sub-Zero finished Raiden by ripping his head off, spine still attached.
Gruesome fatalities, sure, but nothing I’d bat an eye at now, after seeing how the Mortal Kombat franchise has evolved in almost 30 years since. Think of Baraka tearing off his enemy’s face, layer by layer, before skewering their brain and taking a big ol’ bite out of it. Or maybe D’Vorah vomiting insect larvae into an opponent’s mouth; a spider eventually bursts from their body, their entrails dangling like jewelry.
Ed Boon liked to keep secrets. During the development of the original
Mortal Kombat, he quietly sneaked in a hidden character named Reptile a green-colored palette swap of Scorpion without telling anyone.
“It was sort of an experiment to see how long it would naturally be discovered,” Boon told me about his hidden character, who required special circumstances to summon in the game.
Boon programmed the early Mortal Kombat games by himself, so he had carte blanche to include anything he wanted. This was the man who created the series’ first Fatality as a hidden finishing move. (It was Johnny Cage decapitating himself, because Cage was the only character in